On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 at 00:35:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 00:42:22 Iain Buclaw wrote:
On 3 July 2012 17:39, Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 03, 2012 17:05:52 Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> Also, I say you should drop Ubuntu in favour of Debian. :o)
>
> No, no, no. Use Arch! ;)
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
Just so long as it isn't Gentoo. :o)
Afterall, out of all of the linux distros out there, I would
say that
gentoo takes the least time to mess around... </sarcasm>
LOL. I did use Gentoo for a while, but I got sick of things
breaking on
updates. Arch provides most of the benefits that Gentoo does
but defaults to
binary packages while letting you build them from source if you
want to rather
than making _everything_ be built from source. And
surprisingly, Arch seems to
do a better job of providing bleeding edge packages quickly
than Gentoo does
(at least for the packages that I care about).
I found this to be a downside to Arch as there were a few
occasions (even in the short time I used it) when breakage
occurred, whereas the bleeding edge in Gentoo requires explicit
"unmasking". Having been running ~amd64 (unstable) Gentoo for ~6
years on several of my systems, I've found it to be rock solid
through all its neat little admin tools, if things don't get
taken care of by themselves. Gentoo isn't just portage any more.
Arch is little more than pacman.
But Linux distros are one of those things that you can argue
about endlessly. To each their own I guess.
Indeed :)
